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Carl Gauss
Number of words: 1509 - Number of pages: 6.... reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication f .....
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The Life Of Helen Keller
Number of words: 468 - Number of pages: 2.... would
throw outrageous tantrums because she could not communicate with others
what she wanted.
Anne would not tolerate any of this. After much trial and error she
taught Helen the one handed alphabet which gave her a way of communication
with the outside world. Helen learned quickly and with great excitement.
Her tantrums ceased and her manners vastly improved. She was a very bright
child and person. Her generosity never ended and her handicap day by day
was overcome.
Helen Keller's goal in life was, to help others help them selves.
That is what Anne did for her, and that is what she wanted .....
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of words: 1456 - Number of pages: 6.... Gutierrez. He had known of this man
for about twenty years and the stories of the fighting marlins. It was then
that he imagined that man under the two circumstances and came up with the idea.
After about twenty years of pondering on the story , he decided that he would
start on the novel of The Old Man and the Sea. The story The Old Man and the
Sea is about a old man named Santiago who has to over come the great forces of
nature. Things seem to always go wrong for him because originally he started
out going to fish for some dinner, then he caught the biggest marlin ever and
it pulle .....
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of words: 619 - Number of pages: 3.... with honors in 1891. He wrote a poem of eight stanzas which was sung at the commencement ceremonies. On December 13, 1890, Dunbar and an associate, Preston Finley, published the first issue of Dayton Tattler, a black-oriented weekly newspaper. He was chosen president of the "Philomathean Society," a literary organization. (Austin)
Paul Dunbar wanted to study law. He was financially unable to attend college so he took at job as a elevator operator and continued to write. At age twenty he appeared before an audience to give an address before the Western Association of Writers. Thi .....
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William Faulkner
Number of words: 2785 - Number of pages: 11.... up. He replied, "I want to be a writer just like my great granddaddy"(Minter 18). Faulkner took interest in poetry around 1910, but no one in Oxford, Mississippi, could tell him hat to do with his poems. Faulkner, who was very talkative, would always entertain Estelle Oldham by telling her vividly imaginary stories. Eventually, Faulkner grew very fond of Estelle. She became the sole inspirer and recipient of Faulkner's earlier poems. Not long after Faulkner began seeing Estelle regularly, he met a man named Phil Stone who was dating one of Estelle's friends, Katrina. Katrina had told S .....
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The Life And Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 1466 - Number of pages: 6.... wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While
there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and
started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars.
Poe discovered that he could not depend upo .....
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Aristotle (384 -322 BC)
Number of words: 323 - Number of pages: 2.... walking around, his students were called the Peripatetic students, meaning
"walking" or "strolling". When Alexander died in 323 BC, Aristotle was charged
with impiety (lack of reverence to the gods) by the Athenians. The Athenians
probably did this because they resented
Lu-2 Aristotle's friendship with Alexander, the man who conquered
them. Aristotle fled to Euboea. He died there the next year.
ETHICS
Aristotle believed that there was no way to make an accurate resolution of human
decisions since an individual had his or her own choice. He did, however, say
that al .....
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Bob Dylan
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3.... in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to make something of himself, he needed to get to New York City. This was something that he had been thinking about for a long time. So one mornin .....
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Richard Marcinko
Number of words: 420 - Number of pages: 2.... first
counterterrorist unit, Seal Team Six.
Now, the most important contribution Richard Marcinko made was his idea
of Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six was created as part of the CounterTerrorist
Joint Task Force, a group which includes one elite unit each from the Navy, the
Army, and the FBI. Marcinko was given permission and unlimited expenses from the
Pentagon to create this highly elite group. He was then named Commanding Officer
of Seal Team Six, which he served as for three years. This elite unit has went
on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea,
Afric .....
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Eva Peron
Number of words: 2023 - Number of pages: 8.... This was maybe one of the first time’s that Eva felt the injustice of the world, that she felt that there had something to be done for those who did not have enough to eat.
In 1930 Juana Ibarguen decide to leave Los Toldos and left to Junin with all her family seeking for a better fortune. Evita had this dream of someday becoming an actress and she believed in herself saying that she indeed has vocation. She participated in some recitals and plays from school. By 1935 Eva had made up her mind of becoming a great actress. Just after her fifteen birthday Eva met a tango singer: Agustin .....
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